Thousands of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters
gathered on Istanbul’s central Taksim Square to celebrate the failure of
Friday night's military coup. The demonstration featured flag waving,
the chanting of pro-government slogans, songs praising Erdogan and
Islamic chants. An effigy of Fettullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric living in
US and the person that Erdogan and his government have charged with
orchestrating the coup, was hanged on the square.

a "moderate" Syrian rebel group beheads a Palestinian child
There is a video circulating of a beheading of a Palestinian child by a group categorized as "moderate" (the Nur Ad-Din Zanaki group) after accusing the child of serving the Asad regime. Even some Palestinians who support the "revolution" are outraged.

Someone used the coup trouble to off the top Turkish ISIS
contact. How very convenient. This is the only reported casualty at the
presidential palace I have heard of. Who might have had an interest in
removing this witness of Turkish relations with ISIS? Could this be some
"cleaning the record" before making nice again with Syria and its
allies? There is a second data-point that might have such a motive. The
Erdogan government is now accusing "Gülenists" for the trouble with
Russia and claims
that the pilot who shot down a Russian jet also took part in the coup.
Another person that stands in the way of better relations with Russia is
thereby now imprisoned and moved out of the diplomatic picture.

That Erdogan turns away from "west" and towards Iran and Russia does
not yet mean peace for Syria. It will take a while for Erdogan to fully
come around. It will be difficult and take months to neutralize all the
fanatic proxy forces Turkey introduced to the battlefield. There will be
resistance in Turkey against leaving Syria alone. Some of the Syrian
"moderate rebels" will turn their wrath against Turkey itself as the
Islamic State has already done. The U.S. will of course also continue to
intervene no matter what. Over all though this change of attitude in
Ankara is welcome news for Damascus.